On July 14-15, the Larissa Municipal Regional Theater presents at the Epidaurus Ancient Theater Ektoras Lygizos’s staging of Euripides’s “Bacchae”, in the Giorgos Cheimonas translation. In the dramaturg’s ancient Greek drama, Dionysos, in human form, reaches the city, and King Pentheas struggles to defend himself and the city against the advent of a religion that equates all – present and past kings, gods and slaves, oracles and messengers, women and men – into a world were man reconciles with their most animalistic, but also pure instincts.
This is the only surviving tragedy in which the ancient god of Dionysos is featured as part of the drama, but also as an all-seeing writer-director. The show explores the conflict between the protagonist’s individuality and the plurality of the Chorus, as an initiation ceremony to the worship of “the other”, in which the first stage is for two individuals to stand before a spectator’s gaze.
Where: Epidaurus Ancient Theater
When: July 14-15
Admission: € 10-45 (Reduced admission for students and the unemployed available)
You can watch the director speak on the performance here.
Read more here.
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